Wiki Usage

Wiki is a platform for working together on constructing web pages. The principles are simple.

A text is written and saved.

Later, another person may read that text and think of some additions or
corrections that could be made. They choose "Edit" and make their changes to the page.

After saving their new version, it is available globally.

With a wiki, it is also easily possible to add a page or link to existing pages.

A link is created by a WikiWord. This is one word with at least two capital letters. If a page with this name already exist, it will be linked automatically, if not, it will be displayed with a question mark.

Clicking on this question mark, will start a new blank page with that name, ready to edit.

Wiki formatting rules

Paragraphs

separate paragraphs inside the text with empty lines

use three percent signs %%% to enforce a line break

if you prepend text with spaces or tabs it will get indented

!! Headlines

use an exclamation mark ! at the beginning of a line to create a small headline

!! for medium

!!! for large headlines

Text style

if you want to emphasize text enclose it in two single-quotes '' (usually looks italic)

text gets bold with two underscores __ (or if enclosed with two asterisks **)

to make text big enclose it in hash characters ##

you can get smaller text using "µµ" likewise

a typewrite like font will be used if you enclose text in two equal == signs

Lists

start a line with an asterisk * to begin a list

use # instead for numerated lists

you can create sublists

subsequent list points should start with the same mix of * and #

HyperLinks

just enter a WikiWord inside your text to create a new hyper link

enclose some words in [square brackets] to create a HyperLink inside the WikiWikiWeb which is not made up of a valid WikiWord

any valid internet address (starting with http:/) like http://www.example.com/ inside the text will be made clickable automatically

enclose a www address or a WikiLink inside square brackets and assign it a neat title using quotation marks or the | character

[title | http://example.com]

[WikiWord "title"] or ["title for" WikiLink]

if you don't want a WikiWord or a http://www-address (or [anything] inside square brackets) to become a HyperLink then just prepend it with a exclamation mark or a tilde

!NoHyperLink, ~NoHyperLink

![no hyperlink], !http://nolink.org/

Tables with |

| just enclose | things with the dash | character |
| to build a | table structure |
| browsers usually | leave out the missing | cells |

Please always put an empty line before and after a table, so it stands out from other text in its own paragraph.

Pictures

to include an image into a page enclose its absolute www-address in square brackets, like [http://www.example.com/pics/image.png]

alternatively you could use the image uploading function.

Further readings

There are more possibilities for Wiki mark-up. Please consult the Erfurt Wiki Homepage for more information.